Creative Fail

I recently purchased a rather nice macro lens from Graham for my Nikon D60,  I’ve always wanted to take some extreme close ups and detailed shots of smaller objects. This lens certainly gave me the ability to fulfil my wish.

After attaching the lens I found myself looking at a blurry watch on the table, despite turning the lens clockwise and anticlockwise I couldn’t seem to get a focus.  I took a step forward and suddenly… Woah!  The watch was crystal clear and dominated the whole of my view finder.  I realised the significance of distance between the camera and subject and how shallow the depth of field was through the view finder.

Through using a tripod and reducing the aperture size I was able to gain a more wide spread focus, I was soon getting to grips with it.  Now I find myself looking around the house for anything to photograph.

Pocket watch

With the pocket watch photograph above, I was amazed at the contrast of focus which can be obtained over a few centimeters.  This photograph is begging to have a column of text placed over the blurry right hand side.

More contrast in focus is seen in the below photograph, as modelled here by everyone’s favourite videogame hero, Duke Nukem.

Duke Nukem action figure

And lastly I want to demonstrate how even objects that share a relatively similar distance from the lens can also be pin pointed and brought into focus, leaving their neighbouring objects blurry:

A row of pencils

I love this lens, I find myself analysing the most mundane objects, wondering how I can bring them to life in a photograph!  My next ambition is to photograph some insect life… Well, it doesn’t have to be alive does it?  I wonder where I left that rolled up newspaper ?